Leadership is on everyone’s mind at the moment. Yet one recent global study found that 61% of people are worried that business leaders aren’t trustworthy. Faith in them has crumbled.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know how vital it is to upskill your HR people right now?
Digitisation has taken over much of the paper-shuffling process of HR but it’s about more than efficiency – HR development in the tech age is morphing the face and function of the department.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know you can strengthen your board in six steps?
Are you missing opportunities through misunderstandings, crossed wires and misinterpreted intentions? Are decisions held up through miscommunication?
Breakfast Bites: Did you know that upskilling your HR department will build greater trust and efficiency?
Rapidly changing workplaces demand new HR skill sets. How well are you keeping up? How well you improve your HR performance depends on your ability to see the bigger picture.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know your unique employee offer is key to weathering workplace change?
Demographic shifts and AI are changing how, why, and where people work, as well as their expectations. So to secure the skills and mindsets you need to grow and succeed, you need to change tack in this ever-shifting landscape.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know when it comes to future-proofing career pathways, clarity is key?
When you can see a clear way forward for your business, you can move with strength and intention. The same goes for your people.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know your future is in their hands?
We all know that attracting the best talent to your business is key to its future – but success lies in the details to ensure you get the right individuals.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know clear career pathways are your route to growth?
Make the best of and motivate your skilled talent by creating clear career pathways they’ll enjoy. Then they can visualise and grasp the opportunities open to them. It’s good for them and good for you.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know how effective HR transformation can be in building trust and driving business forward?
Talent strategies achieve business objectives. It’s the hill we’re prepared to die on. But we live in times of change, so what worked yesterday, may not work today – or indeed tomorrow. To avoid slipping behind, an HR overhaul may be on the cards.
Breakfast Bites: Your easily digestible guide to Gartner’s top 5 priorities for HR leaders in 2024
What challenges and opportunities will HR leaders will face in 2024? Based on data gathered from over 500 HR leaders in 40 countries, Gartner’s report clearly shows a gap between awareness and the ability to act when it comes to employee wellbeing, engagement and retention.
Breakfast Bites: Welcome to 2024. Did you know your skill gaps don’t have to be a problem this year?
Welcome to the first breakfast bite of the year. What are your company and team goals for 2024? At Jarred, we believe in the power of people to drive business forward so our focus is always going to be making sure you have just the talent you need.
Breakfast Bites: Five reasons why downtime is essential for your business
Just a little note from us at Jarred this week to say we hope you’re enjoying your time off and to remind you why downtime is so productive.
Breakfast Bites: Have your best year yet in 2024 by asking yourself a few simple questions
We have the chance to breathe vitality into the workplace – so that it can reinvent itself for not just a new generation but also a world which accommodates everyone’s preferences and values what each person brings. In our economic climate, it’s not just a ripe opportunity – it’s our responsibility.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know your leadership team needs support too?
At Jarred, we believe that every high-performing team is built on a foundation of shared purpose and trust.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know you don’t have to do it the hard way?
Welcome back to the second in our Did You Know? Series. It’s true, you don’t have to do it the hard way.
Breakfast Bites: Did you know – whatever you give, you get so much more back
At Jarred, we are always energised by making a difference. The positive effect on our clients’ lives and careers is immensely rewarding and enjoyable.
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: Three HR upskills to survive the HR tsunami of change heading our way
HR should be prepared for a ‘huge tsunami of change’ over the next decade according to the former French labour minister.
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: How will AI change your ESG game?
Last week, leaders from around the world met at the spiritual home of computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire.
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: Are you feeling a little overwhelmed with AI?
Have you stopped to think about what the AI/human hybrid future will look like?
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: Our golden opportunity to teach the teacher: two important lessons for AI-led learning
How do we take up the role of machine teacher as we integrate AI into our daily routines?
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: If AI is listening, what are you saying?
You’re in a powerful position right now. We all are.
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: Thinking about the impact of AI?
Here’s how to get ahead of the game and make it work for you.
AI and HR: 7 questions every leader should be asking right now
7 questions every leader should be asking right now According to former Google X boss Mo Gawdat ‘Sci-fi has ended. We’re in sci-fact.’* With years of experience of being knee-deep in AI development, he has three predictions:
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: How to wow the last quarter of the year
How to wow the last quarter of the year
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: the strength of soft skills and why they should be at the top of your priority list
What if we reframed soft skills as hard skills?
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: the top HR trends for 2023 and how they’ve evolved
At the beginning of the year, Forbes published its top HR trends for the 2023 workplace.
Breakfast Bites: Series 3: what if September was the new January?
There’s something fresh about the start of term and it affects everyone, whether you have children at home or not. With the altered state of summer over and done with, there’s a sense of returning to normality across the board.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: what’s tightening the belt on learning and development costing you?
This month we’ve been looking at ways to get everyone excited about getting back to work in September. With autumn just a breeze away, it’s time to get creative about how we’re going to bring summer’s sense of freedom and ease into a busy, productive workplace.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: what if you made more of the people you already have when hiring budgets are tight?
We all know that hitting the pause button isn’t just an enjoyable thing to do, it’s essential. It keeps us functioning, happy and healthy. So however much your summer vacation has cost this year, it has provided you with a priceless opportunity to rest and recharge.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: what if we truly treasured our middle managers?
Enjoying the altered pace of summer? It’s not always less busy, it’s just a chance to seek other life-affirming pursuits: time with family, festivals and a long-awaited annual break.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: what’s better than doughnuts in the office?
Sat on the side next to the kettle, the doughnuts are warm and fresh. What a great welcome back to work, especially if you’ve been away on holiday.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: Why genuine wellbeing strategy is a win/win
Now is the time to close the gap between your wellbeing talk and walk.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: why lack of trust isn’t doing you or your remote workers any favours
Has the climate of remote working changed the level of trust in your teams? If they’re no longer in the same physical space, do managers have a higher level of anxiety over deadlines or a perceived lack of control?
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: is your wellbeing strategy working?
What sits in the gap between good intentions and good practice? People who feel demotivated, forgotten and unseen.
Breakfast Bites: Series 2: wellwashing – why it’s your problem and what you can do about it.
Summertime – a time when we look forward to some well-deserved time off. But what if it isn’t enough? For some, two weeks won’t take away the overbearing dread of going back to work.
How to ace performance review season when budgets are tight
Performance review season The stresses of the financial year end often herald the stresses of performance review season. Your teams may have given their all recently but with budget constraints to consider, how do you retain talent and boost performance when salary increases and bonuses can’t be as generous as you’d like?
Breakfast Bites: Series 1: what’s your role in creating stability?
What can you do? Don’t underestimate the impact of your example – live healthy behaviours that build strong relationships and enable meaningful communication. It’s your job to make sure everyone feels recognised in a way that feels relevant to them. How well do you know the team you lead?
Six essential HR upskills to survive an economic downturn
Six essential HR upskills to survive an economic downturn The great HR squeeze is upon us. On one side, inflation and recession put pressure on budgets but on the other, a reduction in the workforce pool and high demand for cutting-edge skills means competition for talent remains hot.
Leadership matters: seven signs that safety, belonging and recognition are suffering
If safety, belonging and recognition are suffering, and what you can do to shore them up To achieve business growth you need people – in this climate even to stand still, you need people. Your company will not survive without this lifeblood. In times of transition, change and uncertainty you need them even more, and
Evolving VUCA: ten upskilling areas to enrich leadership through turbulent times
Ten upskilling areas to enrich leadership through turbulent times Likely already exhausted, your leaders are under unprecedented pressure from all fronts. After the overnight shifts that were necessary to keep working through a pandemic, they find themselves overwhelmed by wave after wave of rapidly appearing new challenges. These are unpredictable times.
Getting Your People Deal Right
Employing smart: the importance of alignment and purpose in getting your people deal right You’re unlikely to unlock your business’s potential without attracting and keeping the right talent. If you’ve had issues with recruitment or attrition recently then your EVP (or employee value proposition) may not be keeping step with the modern market and what
What does it mean to invest in new talent?
Focus on the future What does it mean to invest in new talent? Lisa Slater, Jarred associate and early talent specialist shares her experience working in the legal sector. ‘Firms won’t achieve their goals if they don’t invest in talent.’ she starts. Naturally, the best investment for an organisation struggling to secure the right people
ESG – real commitment, not lip service
Powerful partners for growth: embedding ESG in your People Proposition (EVP) Looking to scale your business? This is what you need to know about putting people and purpose at the heart of your intentions.
Resilience – when the unexpected happens
Leadership through resilience When the unexpected happens, needs can morph overnight: needs that are sometimes difficult to articulate, let alone meet. It could be said that the definition of resilience is how people handle work and life in times of rapid change, so when you’re dealing with the needs of others as well as your
8 Top Tips for Leaders to Maximise Effectiveness of Teams Working From Home
As the world goes further into lock down and more and more people are required to work from home leaders and managers are being faced with how to best manage their teams remotely. For employers used to having people physically present in the office this can add to the strain of running the business when
Top Tips for Running and Hosting Virtual Meetings
Thanks to a wide range of technology tools, virtual meetings are accessible and can be very effective. But virtual meetings are different from the face-to-face variety in many ways. For online collaboration to succeed, participants need to communicate differently than they would if everyone were gathered in the same room together. As many people are
COVID 19: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Business
As the weeks carry on into the ‘slightly’ unknown territory for many businesses across the globe people are waking up to the fact that things are different. Yet, we all still have businesses to run to support our clients and our teams. We’ve put this article together as a way of pooling some useful tips
People Analytics and their Influence on Business
Following last month’s CIPD Data Analytics Conference and Workshop we decided to take a closer look at data analytics and its role in HR. The idea of data analytics in HR is not a new one. It’s about taking a data driven approach to identifying and analysing people related issues. However, over the last few
Strategic Importance of Leadership
A recent McKinsey report reveals a worrying disconnect between CEOs and HR leader’s overly buoyant beliefs around their talent and people development strategies compared to other leaders within their organisation. While 64% of both HR leaders and CEOs said their companies were high adopters of such strategies, only 42% of all other survey respondents agreed